The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity is pleased to bring to campus for its spring 2021 national speaker political strategist, professor and author Donna Brazile. Brazile will present a virtual lecture to the CWRU campus on Tuesday, February 9 at 4:30 p.m. She is expected to discuss the increase in the number of women in Congress and their potential impact on politics. Her lecture is part of the events being held on campus in honor of Black History Month.

Brazile is the former chair of the Democratic National Committee and former news contributor for Fox News, ABC News and CNN. She is the author of the 2004 best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pot in American Politics and co-author of the forthcoming book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (DC) and Howard University (DC). Brazile is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the W.E.B Du Bois Medal, Harvard University’s highest honor in African American Studies and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s highest award for political achievement.

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